“...we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Sunday, June 17, 2012

THE BROOKLYN COWBOY

Dad's
an amazing man, still, and back then before Brooklyn's brownstones were
remodeled for single family dwellings and before poor neighborhoods had
been gentrified beyond recognition by yuppies and hipsters with trust funds, he was just a scruffy kid in short pants running in the mean streets of Brooklyn, New York. No he didn't have a pony. In this
picture, someone must have spent some change to get a
picture taken with a pony. This is before he passed through the
blackboard jungle of Manual Training High School, before he joined the
Navy during the Korean War and was stationed in Hawaii, before he met Mom in San Francisco and got married, before he
had kids, before he worked days and went to night school, before he became a teacher, before grad school
and eventually earning his doctorate, before he retired...This was his
short pants days. Happy father's day, Dad. Love ya.